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[Ferret-Simpson]

Just a thought. . . What are the BMIPs of a. . . say. . 3100?

Just thinking about zPSX. . .

[fooman]

I played around with this new image but experienced some problems.  I started by installing the 26-July Hentges bootstrap image.  I was able to modify altboot.func to work with nested filesystems, so I mounted my FAT SD card on /media/sd, then mounted an ext2 image called /media/sd/filesys on /media/card, then mounted the rootfs binary on /media/image.  Both /dev/loop0 and /dev/loop1 are used.

But GPE wasn't functional - I got a segmentation fault when I tried to install the bash package.  And when I altboot'd into the Opie rootfs binary, it hung at boot when it got to the "populating /dev" message.

So I kept the 26-July kernel but now tried installing the 26-July Hentges Opie image directly into flash.  I then installed cardfs.  Unfortunately, Opie would hang after I ran certain programs (such as scummvm) that used to worked before.

I even tried downgrading just the kernel, back to 17-July and keeping the 26-July image.  But scummvm still didn't work right so I gave up.  I've moved back to the 17-July Hentges kernel and image.

Do you know how many changes there are between the 17-July and 26-July kernel and image?

A new image is online,

happy flashing 
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[simbaB]

Can I put in a request to get WPA crypto modules added to the kernel image? I'm talking about ieee80211_crypt_tkip (which I need) and ieee80211_crypt_ccmp. I connect to two wireless networks about 99% of the time and they both use WPA/TKIP Enterprise.

[koen]

Can I put in a request to get WPA crypto modules added to the kernel image? I'm talking about ieee80211_crypt_tkip (which I need) and ieee80211_crypt_ccmp. I connect to two wireless networks about 99% of the time and they both use WPA/TKIP Enterprise.
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Those should be in the feeds if they were built as modules

[simbaB]

Those should be in the feeds if they were built as modules
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Well, I couldn't find a feed for the test images, so I built the linux-openzaurus-2.6.17 kernel for poodle myself, and that gave me all the modules I needed (and then some) as .ipk files. The whole batch of module packages is only 3.7MB so if anyone wants any of them I can post them my server.

[fooman]

Could you please post these modules?  Also, how did you build the kernel?  Just "bitbake virtual/kernel"?

Thanks.

Those should be in the feeds if they were built as modules
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Well, I couldn't find a feed for the test images, so I built the linux-openzaurus-2.6.17 kernel for poodle myself, and that gave me all the modules I needed (and then some) as .ipk files. The whole batch of module packages is only 3.7MB so if anyone wants any of them I can post them my server.
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[simbaB]

Could you please post these modules?  Also, how did you build the kernel?  Just "bitbake virtual/kernel"?

Thanks.

The modules are attached to this message. All the kernel-module-*.ipk files built by bitbake are in a single .tar.gz file. Beware, some of them are already provided by the test image and will not install. Also, you can fetch individual .ipks from this address:

http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/lin...ules-2.6.17-r9/

It is not a feed, though. I haven't figured out how to generate those.

I created them by building 'linux-openzaurus-2.6.17' out of the .oz354x branch. I had hengtes CVS in my BBPATH, but I don't think that was necessary. See 'GettingStarted' on the OpenEmbedded wiki if you need more help.

[koen]

It is not a feed, though. I haven't figured out how to generate those.
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ipkg-make-index -p Packages .

[simbaB]

ipkg-make-index -p Packages .
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Alright, thanks. It should be a feed now:

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src kernel-modules-test http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/linux/zaurus/kernel-modules-2.6.17-r9/
Any problems, let me know.

[simbaB]

Speaking of the kernel, hotplug seems to not be working, at least for PCMCIA. I have to 'modprobe hostap_cs' or whatever to activate my CF cards (wifi and bluetooth). It works on my laptop (also 2.6.17), but I am out of date on how hotplug/udev operates these days (/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is empty) so I've been poking around /proc and /sys on the Z and on my laptop, comparing them to figure out what's missing.

Incidentally, udev seems out-of-date (084). My laptop has 093. Is there a reason for this or could this be the reason that hotplugging CF cards isn't working?

[fooman]

Thanks.  I wound up just compiling the kernel on my own and was able to get to the modules.  I noticed that kernel-module-ip-tables and kernel-module-ipsec were not included.  Do you know how we can get these compiled too?  The usual way is to go into the configuration file and specify the options but I don't know how it's done via OE.

Also, this is slightly unrelated but when I tried to bitbake fbvncserver-kmodule, OE assumed that I wanted to use the poodle 2.4.18-embedix kernel instead and tried to download the source code for that.  When I did a bitbake -D -D -D fbvncserver-kmodule, I couldn't see poodle-2.6 as one of the options for a kernel.  Any ideas?

Could you please post these modules?  Also, how did you build the kernel?  Just "bitbake virtual/kernel"?

Thanks.

The modules are attached to this message. All the kernel-module-*.ipk files built by bitbake are in a single .tar.gz file. Beware, some of them are already provided by the test image and will not install. Also, you can fetch individual .ipks from this address:

http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/lin...ules-2.6.17-r9/

It is not a feed, though. I haven't figured out how to generate those.

I created them by building 'linux-openzaurus-2.6.17' out of the .oz354x branch. I had hengtes CVS in my BBPATH, but I don't think that was necessary. See 'GettingStarted' on the OpenEmbedded wiki if you need more help.
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[simbaB]

To build a kernel 2.6 for poodle, you should specify what kernel version you want in your local.conf file. There is a variable (the name of which escapes me ATM) for specifying the kernel series (2.4 or 2.6) on machines that support it (like poodle). You can also set PREFERRED_PROVIDER and PREFERRED_VERSION variables for the kernel there. See the OpenEmbedded wiki and other .conf files for examples and more information.

The configuration file for the kernel is located in packages/linux/linux-openzaurus-2.6.17/defconfig-poodle (I think). You can just modify that file if you want to change some options.

[hvontres]

Thanks.  I wound up just compiling the kernel on my own and was able to get to the modules.  I noticed that kernel-module-ip-tables and kernel-module-ipsec were not included.  Do you know how we can get these compiled too?  The usual way is to go into the configuration file and specify the options but I don't know how it's done via OE.

Also, this is slightly unrelated but when I tried to bitbake fbvncserver-kmodule, OE assumed that I wanted to use the poodle 2.4.18-embedix kernel instead and tried to download the source code for that.  When I did a bitbake -D -D -D fbvncserver-kmodule, I couldn't see poodle-2.6 as one of the options for a kernel.  Any ideas?

Unfortunately, fbvncserver-kmodule needs some TLC... It is a 2.4 style module and does not know how to compile for a 2.6 kernel. If you have some experience at porting linux drivers from 2.4 to 2.6, you should be able to get it working.  I have looked at it, but I am still a wee noob when it comes to both module code and bitbake..

[koen]

Thanks.  I wound up just compiling the kernel on my own and was able to get to the modules.  I noticed that kernel-module-ip-tables and kernel-module-ipsec were not included.  Do you know how we can get these compiled too?  The usual way is to go into the configuration file and specify the options but I don't know how it's done via OE.

Also, this is slightly unrelated but when I tried to bitbake fbvncserver-kmodule, OE assumed that I wanted to use the poodle 2.4.18-embedix kernel instead and tried to download the source code for that.  When I did a bitbake -D -D -D fbvncserver-kmodule, I couldn't see poodle-2.6 as one of the options for a kernel.  Any ideas?

Unfortunately, fbvncserver-kmodule needs some TLC... It is a 2.4 style module and does not know how to compile for a 2.6 kernel. If you have some experience at porting linux drivers from 2.4 to 2.6, you should be able to get it working.  I have looked at it, but I am still a wee noob when it comes to both module code and bitbake..
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why not use x11vnc or xdamagevnc?

[hvontres]

Thanks.  I wound up just compiling the kernel on my own and was able to get to the modules.  I noticed that kernel-module-ip-tables and kernel-module-ipsec were not included.  Do you know how we can get these compiled too?  The usual way is to go into the configuration file and specify the options but I don't know how it's done via OE.

Also, this is slightly unrelated but when I tried to bitbake fbvncserver-kmodule, OE assumed that I wanted to use the poodle 2.4.18-embedix kernel instead and tried to download the source code for that.  When I did a bitbake -D -D -D fbvncserver-kmodule, I couldn't see poodle-2.6 as one of the options for a kernel.  Any ideas?

Unfortunately, fbvncserver-kmodule needs some TLC... It is a 2.4 style module and does not know how to compile for a 2.6 kernel. If you have some experience at porting linux drivers from 2.4 to 2.6, you should be able to get it working.  I have looked at it, but I am still a wee noob when it comes to both module code and bitbake..
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why not use x11vnc or xdamagevnc?
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With Opie ??